A few more shots from last week of the hip....You'll see from the video we shot today that most of us are hitting it like a straight forward stepdown. I've been trying to whip it a little, but I'm still too scared to really let it rip.

edit: I see I'm not alone with this thought. Posted before reading the others.

No. There's nothing close by to help you generate the speed you'd need to do a step up.

Maybe if you got a tow from a motorcycle.

Nice work you guys.... that looks much bigger and scarier from below. As you approach the lip, the top of the tranny appears to be perfectly in line with your fall angle and all of about 2 feet away........ as you can see though, the gap and the drop are considerably bigger than that.

Last edited by KRob; 01-08-2009 at 10:08 PM.

I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth...
Isaiah 58:14

No worries Mike. Team Sanchez will take good care of you. They are great hosts. All the Team's big moves have nice alternate lines for the timid (like me). You'll find plenty to like on Barrels and Zen, if that's where they are taking you, even if you don't hit the monster moves. After watching your vids I can't imagine you'd have much trouble with any of that stuff though.

I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth...
Isaiah 58:14

Just out of curiosity, now that you have hit it a bunch does it need the little kicker up top? At the speed you are going it appears the lip is just pushing you past the landing. It looks like you have the drop dialed enough that you could yank on the roll-over and send it without the kicker. But it might just be the angle of the footy.

Ben you need to get in contact with your buddy Aqua, he has recently officially graduated to a bigger bike and needs some input on a Highline, plus you both like to build big drops off rocks so I imagine you can talk shop

Ben you need to get in contact with your buddy Aqua, he has recently officially graduated to a bigger bike and needs some input on a Highline, plus you both like to build big drops off rocks so I imagine you can talk shop

When you wake up next to him tomorrow morning, tell him to drop me a line. Although, after watching Mikesee hit a bunch of moves on his 29'er, it has opened my eyes to the abilities of the big wheels. Tell him to keep with the DW Sultan for all his rock moves.

Agua + shovel

Originally Posted by rroeder

Ben you need to get in contact with your buddy Aqua, he has recently officially graduated to a bigger bike and needs some input on a Highline, plus you both like to build big drops off rocks so I imagine you can talk shop

? for Team Sanchez, have you thought about replacing that dirt lip with concrete?

Oh yeah. That was the original plan. When we were out building it, the dirt was so sloppy, that we decided to try a dirt lip first, just to see how it would hold up. The dirt has so much clay in it here, that the dirt lip is holding up great. It'll be interesting to see what happens next time it rains.

Someone asked it the lip is really necessary. Probably not, but it gives your bike a little flatter trajectory, and helps you get to the tranny a little easier without having to boost so hard.

We measure every launch in our playgrounds, and it's good to know for future planning.

I just started doing that on some of our "legit" trails because we needed to ensure that consecutive jumps were "roughly" the same distance so riders could hit them with consistent speed. Prior to that, I'd only done the "3 bike length" sort of measurement or nothing at all.